i'll never stop being mystified by the fact that we have a 5 letter word that's pronounced exactly the same as the first letter of the word
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Oh. Great. 5 vowels in a row. The language needed that.
Blame the French.
qouioui
Sacre bleu!
sir digby chicken ceaser salad!
Slovak has the word for ice cream which is zmzrlina with 5 consonants in a row
Oh Slovenian has you beat here. We have 2 words with only consonants and 6 letters. That being vzbrst and sntntn. So yeah...
Edit: I just remembered zmrzlina also used to be the word for ice cream here about 200 years ago. Similar to it we also then have zmrznjen (frozen) for 6 conconants in a row with basicaly the same root of the word.
Oh yeah sadly not wirh many high scoring letters. We also have a bunch of other words with just consonants. Like čmrlj, smrt, vrt, prt.... Probably many more I just cannot think of.
It doesn't even have a vowel!
Tsk tsk, Hobbes.
Just two? Cute. Czech has entire sentences without consonants.
Oh well I forgot to say they are 6 letter words but sure give me an example of such a sentence.
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I'm curious why slovak and czech language developed to use mainly consonants?
It's because of R and L and to a lesser extent S. These are "syllabic consonants" (other languages have different ones, depends on pronunciation) which can take up the role vowels usually do because they can be stretched to an arbitrary length unlike other consonants.
Apparently English also has these, such as the M in rhythm or L in awful (the U is silent, so it falls on the L to form the syllable).
Honestly one of my life's greatest achievements in life was that I once used this to convince a Brazillian guy that Czech does actually make sense =D
Well, thanks for the thorough answer!
in a row
Queueing, even.
I can add Wrzeszcz for perspective. It may not be in a row, but no 8 letter word should have 3 zs
Zmrzlina would like to have a word with you, only 2 Zs but 5 consonants in a row
Basically the opposite of Polish
Queue, que, cue
¿que?
'kay.
q
kew
Bee, sea, jay, oh, pee, queue, tea, you, why, zed.
You forgot aitch. That's my favorite.
Plus (excluding names), gee, eye, in, are, tee, ex.
... and per se and.
Why on earth would we want to see this?!
Benadryl Queuecumberpatch
Bendydick Cuminhersnatch
“This could have been an email.”
Oh dear, how many times "you might want to see this" needed unsee juice after that
This feels like an indictment of passive language really. I like my language like I like my tigers, passive and sleepy.
M’am?
Come take a look at this cliche - ding
Could've been better without the fourth panel, I feel.
I think if you just remove her speech balloon, it works:
I think even "I said you might want to!" is too much. It smacks of a shoddy American sitcom where they say these non-jokes to cue the canned laughter. If they insist on having four panels, they could have a third panel with the two going through some security rigmarole, maybe stick in a few subtle visual jokes.
shift 1,2,3 to 2,3,4 and have 1 as an establishing shot of the nsa hq to make the setup clearer. right now it's like you see the punchline, then an extra panel, then go back to see what was the big deal and realize somewhere in the background it says nsa hq.
Well I did see the "NSA Headquarters" sign but I admit it'd be weird to have that on the wall in the office of the madam who might want to see things!
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